Are u sure

Yep, keep telling yourself that. And while you’re doing that, take a look at the prices at the pumps.

Technology can’t create energy out of nothing. What may be technically possible often isn’t economically possible.

Eh!
Nuclear power is the perfect solution to our nations energy needs.
Along with renewables our future energy needs would be secured.

Hey Ciaran.

Nuclear is not a solution, it’s really uneconomical and we would have to import all the Uranium which mostly comes from Australia. Our main problem is we are importing more than 90% of our fuel and Nuclear would just add to this problem.

People who advocate nuclear just love the energy density of the refined Uraniam. Complete overkill for Ireland, trust me.

The spirt of Ireland project (pumped hydro) would be a solution if it went ahead. We could store intermittent renewables and use them when needed and possibly export to Europe.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_Ireland

If it’s uneconomical why is there 60 reactors currently being constructed around the world.
Uranium deposits have been found in Donegal and the south easy.
We could mine and develop out own technology for a nuclear sector.
It’s a stable,constant form of energy that our economy needs

Tridium will be a better alternative to uranium

You cant run an industrial / manufacturing economy on wave energy but since our European masters want us to have a poor economy, we will be fiddling around with wave and wind etc.

Btw, crude oil is a small part of our electricity generation. The old crude is used mainly in transport, which EU does not want Ireland to do anything about because Germany’s booming economy is dependent on Paddy buying its huge oil guzzlers.

“Our main problem is we are importing more than 90% of our fuel ”

We manufacture hardly anything, and more wind and wave power will mean we wont be able to manufacture anything.

One could easily argue that our main problem is that we import 90% of the products we use from China, Germany, India etc – steel, aluminium, clothes, cod (comes from China), washing machines, fridges, cars etc etc and this trend will continue the more we fiddle about with wave and wind

Brian, “imported”? Haven’t you heard of globalisation?

So what happens when the wind doesn’t blow AND there is little or no wind or waves. Do you sail? Obviously not. The sea can be flat calm for days or so rough your little fantasy gadgets will just get broken. Look up the rule of 12ths and tell me tidal can work.

I said tidal or wave. The tide comes in and out twice a day.

If the world changed to nuclear, the uranium stocks would be quickly depleted and the cost would soar.

100 MW of tidal energy going into the water off the coast of Fair Head, NI, commencing 2015. Seagen S is the technology, owned by Siemens. The Seagen 1.2 MW prototype has been deployed at strangford lough since 2006 which is fully grid connected. Tidal power is highly predictable. There are a further 100 MW of installed capacity planned beside Thor Head also in NI, as well as developments in Anglesey and the Isle of sky and also the bay of fundy in Canada.

Brian, you too need to look up the law of 12ths. For about 3/4 of the time the tide barely moves so 3/4 of the time the tide won’t generate any electricity so we’re back to a backup system. Your comment about “uranium stocks” is complete nonsense. There’s no shortage of Uranium nor will there be, there’s lots of it and you need very little. Tidal and wind are useless and will never supply more than a tiny fraction of power needed.

Doesnt matter William, as Ireland imports everything we need so we dont need a good supply of electricity – just enough to keep lights on and computers running so we can tot up the financial transactions.